'Soccer' tagged posts

Last night after practice, four of our kids and I ended up having an entire indoor soccer field to ourselves. So we decided to spread out. Alexa practiced some shots on me in the goal and the three boys were about sixty yards away on the opposite end of the field, playing a game of […]

Last Friday night we loaded the family up into the van and attended a championship soccer game for a local high school tournament. Now I must say, that over the past 7 years since our kids have played soccer, we have attended a lot of games. There are times when we leave feeling great and […]

Last Saturday evening, our oldest daughters soccer team enjoyed an awesome come from behind win. They were playing hard and in my unbiased opinion, better than their opponent, but were losing 2-1 with only minutes to play in the second half. To add to the drama, one player on the other team had already earned […]

Last night I gave my oldest daughter a bloody nose. Ok…here’s the whole story. Due to the weather, the kids soccer practices were cancelled so we drove home and noticed that the line of weather was not affecting the soccer field near our house. So we decided to have our own practice. Boys against girls. […]

This weekend my oldest daughter is participating in a soccer tournament. After driving her to games for several years, I have volunteered to assist with the coaching. There are several reasons: I want to spend time with her I want to learn more about the game from the head coach I want to save some […]

On Thursday Sinue and Felipe arrived in Kansas City. Each of them are soccer players from Brazil and their main language is Portuguese. Each of them also speaks English well…much better than I speak Portuguese :). So this morning, Sinue and I were talking and I was trying to understand the word that he was […]